2024 VIC ATAR Scores & VCE Results | Top 100 Private Schools in Melbourne

Image credit: St Catherine’s School Toorak
Image credit: St Catherine’s School Toorak

Key VCE stats*:

  • 61,998 students completed their VCE
  • 477 schools offered the VCE VM in 2024, a 4% increase from last year
  • 13.3% of VCE completions were VCE Vocational Major students
  • 1,105 students were awarded the Victorian Pathways Certificate

Key ATAR stats:

  • Median ATAR for 2024 was 69.52% up from 69.31% in 2023

  • The reported median ATAR score for Victoria is 76.55%

  • The estimated median ATAR of the 100 best performing private schools is ~87.0%**

  • 7.1% of Victorian students achieved an ATAR of 90% or above

Highest reported private school median ATAR scores:

  • St Catherine’s School in Toorak was the highest performing girls' school with a median ATAR of 95.25%
  • Melbourne Grammar School in South Yarra was the highest performing boys' school with a median ATAR of 91.40%
  • Ballarat Clarendon College in Ballarat was the highest performing co-ed school with a median ATAR of 91.20%

The table below lists the 100 best performing private schools in Victoria based on 2024 VCE & IB results***

*Data sourced from the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, correct as at 27/01/2025

**Note that some schools do not disclose Median ATAR score

***Self-published ATAR data from schools has not been independently verified, for IB schools we have used combined ATAR scores

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